South Africa 1936 Schlesinger Air Race, Halse Signed Cover

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Description

  • SA: 1936 SCHLESINGER AIR RACE:
  • Cover carried "per S. S. Halse", one of the South African entrants in the race
  • (who led the field until crashing his Percival Mew Gull in a forced landing due to poor visibility near Salisbury).
  • Mailed back to UK from Salisbury; franked GB ½d tied by Portsmouth cds on departure and Southern Rhodesia 1d's tied by Salisbury cds's of 7th and 12th October.
  • SIGNED BY PILOT at left.
  • Captain Halse carried only 20 pieces of mail, not all of which were signed.
  • VF, scarce.